The Wonderful World Of Ornaments

One year I bought peach and white and gold ornaments, lots of peach and white pearly garland and white lights. Only white, nothing but white.

I waited till the kids were in school and my baby {Kaysha at the time} was taking a nap and I decorated the tree myself, making sure each ornament was exactly the same amount of space between the next and making sure everything was strategically, perfectly in place.

OMG, looking back...how I hated that tree set up.

Yes, it was gorgeous. Yes it was touched up to perfection.
It had no imperfections, no color clashes and no kiddie finger prints on anything.

I never, ever put a tree up like that again and the following year I pulled out my box of sentimental store bought and hand made ornaments and let the kids go at it.

Perfecto!!!

Till this day, I've never gone back. :0)

Today {and maybe tomorrow too since this is pretty graphic heavy} I'd like to welcome all of you into the "K" family world of Christmas tree ornaments.

Every year since our very first was born, we have gotten each kid a "special" ornament for the tree. Our oldest always remembers her Dad and me, pretty sweet, huh?

It all started off with this pink ball announcing our firstborns first Christmas...



And although this one will be the last ever "Baby's First Christmas" ornament we will buy, it certainly won't be the last ornament we buy....



I buy the ornaments to remind myself of something big that happened that year. Like the year Kody was on steroids and developed a love of chocolate milk like nothing I have ever seen before...



Or the reason why he was on steroids in the first place. This is his first childhood cancer ribbon that hung on a big ole' Christmas tree in Washington DC...



This was Kolin's, the year he scribbled out his very first official "Dear Santa" wish list {I still have it}. He had Kody help him write it in crayon...



Kaysha's when she was 14 years old and ALWAYS had her CD player plugged in with music blaring by her side....



Who doesn't love a good "Snow Day"? I got this one for Karyelle the year she moved back to New York. BTW, in Florida we have "Hurricane Days". LOL!....



The year Kyle was into every sport you can imagine. The trunk of our car looked like his locker room and we schlepped him to every practice, every game, every stinkin' day...



Living in New York, Karlio and KK were both volunteer fire fighters. Did you know Christmas and Thanksgiving are the two busiest times of the year for accidental fires? We ate a lot of reheated holiday dinners those years...



There is a windy road in Putnam valley, NY called Dennytown Road. On that road is a house with the coolest mailbox. It has a normal one down low and another up high that reads "Air Mail". Our second daughter was completely obsessed with that mailbox. When I found this ornament I knew I had to have it to remind her of her childhood {and weird obsessions}...



Lastly, for today, can you guess who's ornament this one belongs to? *wink*...



Have a beautiful day everybody, I'll have more ornaments to show you tomorrow.

BTW, Kody is still a little headachey but definitely feeling better then yesterday. They said it could take up to three days for him to come around. :0)